Art of Shuri

ARTWORKS

Welcome to The Heart of My Practice!

My artworks are stories told without words—expressed through shapes, colors, and quiet emotions. Each painting begins as a feeling rather than a plan: moments of grief, tenderness, longing, and hope layered gently onto the surface.

I translate emotions into colors and memories into shapes.

My art products are an extension of these stories. Translated from canvas into everyday objects, each piece carries the same emotional presence—meant to live with you, to comfort, and to quietly remind you that feelings are worth holding onto.

These are not just artworks or products.
They are fragments of stories—held in shapes and colors—waiting to be felt.

ART PRODUCTS

PAINTINGS

Caught in Between

This painting was born from a moment of longing — the kind that sits deep in your chest, where desire and hesitation meet. When I painted Caught In Between, I felt the pull of something I wanted but knew I couldn’t reach without breaking something else.

The red sky carries the weight of emotion I couldn’t name — love, loss, maybe both. The golden moon became a symbol of everything I was yearning for: warm, close, almost within touch, yet impossibly distant. Beneath it, the city stands half in light, half in shadow — a reflection of my own state of mind.

Every stroke was a conversation with myself — between what I wanted and what I knew I had to let go of. The colors bleed into each other like emotions that refuse to stay separate.

Caught In Between is not just about longing; it’s about the quiet pain of knowing that sometimes, choosing peace means walking away from what sets your heart on fire.

Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Dimension:
30x40cm

Half-step Away

Half Step Away came from the feeling of being tugged between where I’ve come from and where I know I need to go. The small white houses represent the comfort of the familiar — the memories, routines, and old versions of myself that still feel like home.

Behind them, the rising blocks of color symbolize the future pulling at me: bright, uncertain, full of possibilities I’m not fully ready to face. Each shape leans in a different direction, echoing the way my heart shifts between staying and moving forward.

This painting is that in-between moment —
the pause before change,
the quiet ache of growing beyond a place you still care for,
the feeling of being just one step away from the life that’s waiting.

Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Dimension:
40x50cm

What Stayed

This face carries what could not be spoken at the time.

Some parts learned to be strong early.
Some learned to stay quiet.
Some stayed soft, even when it would have been easier to harden.

Nothing here is symmetrical, because life wasn’t.
Each color holds a different memory—moments of courage, confusion, tenderness, resistance. The lines are firm not to divide, but to protect what each part has survived.

The eyes do not look away. They have seen enough to know that hiding costs more than honesty. The mouth rests between holding back and letting go, choosing neither fully, because both are true.

The background is the feeling that lingers after everything has happened—the warmth, the ache, the calm that arrives slowly when you stop asking yourself to be someone else.

This painting is not about fixing what is broken.
It is about honoring what stayed.

A story told quietly,
in shapes and colors.

Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Dimension:
40x50cm

Inner Tide

I wanted to capture the emotions that move quietly beneath the surface — the rise and fall we feel but rarely speak about. The blue forms in Inner Tide became the language of that inner movement, reflecting moments of connection and solitude blending into each other.

The curves suggest shifting states within me, like two presences merging and separating, shaped by memories and relationships that continue to leave their marks. The bold black lines are my boundaries and truths, while the small white strokes feel like soft confessions — tiny pieces of healing.

To me, the painting mirrors a tide: constantly pulling inward for reflection, then pushing outward toward change.
Inner Tide became my way of tracing those unseen currents — the emotional flow that shapes who I am and who I’m still becoming.

Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Dimension:
40x50cm

Crossroad

When I created Crossroad, I was caught between staying and walking away—a place where emotions pull in opposite directions and nothing feels clear. The purples trace that uncertainty: looping thoughts, softened memories, and the quiet tension of holding on when part of you is already letting go.

The red shapes burst through without planning, like truth breaking out of the confusion. They’re the moments of honesty you can’t ignore anymore—the part of you that finally admits, “Something has to change.”

As the layers built, I realized I wasn’t painting a decision, but the moment right before it—the hesitation, the ache, the weight of choosing between two futures.

Crossroad is that suspended moment:
the breath before the truth,
the pull between leaving and staying,
the heart standing right at the edge of becoming.

Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Dimension:
40x50cm

I Am Not One Thing at a Time

I made this painting during a moment when my thoughts refused to line up neatly.

Every color here is a sentence I couldn’t finish.
Every black line is a correction I tried to make—but couldn’t fully erase.

The red dominates because emotion arrived first: urgency, desire, conflict. The blues and greens came later, like breath returning after holding it too long. I didn’t plan the intersections; they happened the way life does—overlapping, interrupting, insisting on being felt all at once.

I wasn’t trying to create harmony.
I was trying to stay honest.

This painting is about movement without destination. About standing in the middle of many selves—who I was, who I am becoming, who I pretend to be when the world is watching. The lines are messy because clarity didn’t come gently. It came through friction.

When I present this work, I don’t explain it fully. I let it mirror the viewer. Whatever feels loud to you in this painting is probably what’s loud inside you.

Medium: Charcoal, Acrylic on Textured Paper
Dimension:
29,7x42cm (A3)

Partial States (ACEO series)

Extending from “I Am Not One Thing at a Time” painting is a series of ACEOs that operate as fragments from the same inner landscape. Each small piece captures a partial state: a shift in feeling, a moment of tension, an interruption.

They are not preparatory studies, but independent works that acknowledge how identity is experienced in pieces rather than as a single, stable image.

The contrast in scale is intentional. The larger work asks the viewer to step back, while the ACEOs invite close, intimate engagement. This physical movement mirrors the psychological act of self-examination—moving between distance and closeness, coherence and fracture.

Together, these works resist the pressure to be singular, resolved, or complete. Instead, they hold space for multiplicity as truth, and for becoming as an ongoing process rather than a finished state.

Medium: Charcoal, Acrylic on Textured Paper
Dimension:
 6.4 x 8.9cm

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